Places that Break Country Geographic Stereotypes
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Not a country, but Alaska actually has Sand Dunes in Kobuk Valley National Park! Definitely not what you think of when Alaska is mentioned.
There’s a few places in the Arctic/subarctic like this. I think Canada has a few spots like this in the Yukon too
Many countries have sussy places that don't make sense geographically in them. Croatia has a tiny little desert near the town of Đurđevac, they actually got camels and shit... Also, I believe Bosnia has a jungle... (more of a rainforest really, but close enough for them to brag about it)
@@aquss33 Scotland has rainforest
@@andycockrum1212 Carcross Desert south of Whirehorse, Yukon! ❤
@@aquss33you did not just say sussy unironically 💀💀
It's so funny that Greenland being green is going against a stereotype
In one protected valley, Greenland actually has a forest. The climatic border between tundra and boreal forest is one month warmer than 10C (50F). That is enough. Greenland is close to that line, as is so with the Falkland Islands and with Iceland.
A surprse is that tundra can be surprisingly green. Grass thrives at lower temperatures than do trees. The Norse were able to live by raising livstock grazing on the lush grass.
As an Australian who has grown up on the great dividing range in northern NSW, i have seen snow quite a few times, and I have been in a blizzard
surprised you didn't show the Snowies here in Aus in this video, seeming that a lot of people are normally shocked when they hear we have snow lol
Same with Brazil, we get frequent snow here in the south of the country, specially in Santa Catarina
@@josepharaujo3356 damn that is something I didn't know lol, I just read the wiki for some of the towns there, and the climate of some of the towns seem to be relatively similar to where I grew up lol
Eastern Victoria too
@@LuckayyLucarioI think I will be more shocked because I knew that snow is not a common thing in Australia lol, and Sydney is warmer than Hanoi in the winter despite both are at the same altitude.
@@vinhlong7347 yeah but a 2hr train from sydney CBD and your in katoomba, a town 1000 meters above sea level that gets snow, most of our east coast is pretty mountainous, even if the range its self is not as tall as most mountain ranges in the world, its still high enough for many towns to get snow
Ok, the "desert" shown in Brazil is not truly a desert, they are coastal dunes, but Brazil actually has a very large semi-arid area, and inside it, some areas that are classified as hot desert, but these places not has sand dunes, being more like steppes with lots of bushes.
There is even places that snow in Brazil , just like Vietnam our contry is very long , to the point that the Northest point of of Brazil is closeer to Canada , than the Southest country , which is closer to Antartica.
hush up man, michigan has a desert if you don’t correct this guy
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Why are you so mad about it? You wouldn’t assume Brazil has a landscape that looks like that. Doesn’t matter what it is
@@poobtoilet1822 I'm not "mad" about it, in fact, I liked the way he approached this subject in the video, I'm just adding a bit of information.
1. The cold, moist coast of the Lake Michigan lakeshore of the Upper Peninsula has sand dunes.
2 Iran has a rainfrest on its shore of the Caspian Sea.
3. Spain has an honest-to-Sahara desert on its mainland.
4. France has a tropical rainforest? Sure; French Guiana is an overseas department of France.
5. Switzerland has palm trees in the Lugano area.
6. The northwestern corner of Oahu (the Hawaiian island containing Honolulu) has severe desert.
The tabernas desert in Spain doesn't look like the Sahara but more like Nevada. Some old western movies were even filmed there
@@icantthinkausername1136 True. Once Upon a Time in the West.
@@paulbrower I thought that was filmed in Arizona
As an sapanish I can confirm that I live in a hot country, but in the north(Galicia, Asturias...), the climate is like england
Huh? O'ahu? I mean the West side is more dry than windward side but there's nothing close to a desert here. I think you're thinking of the big island. That actually does get 10 inch or less rain annually in a very specific spot. And that's not even the area that's called a desert. Look up the Ka'u desert. It's really cool
One could confuse Quebec City with a traditional European city in the way it was built, it doesn't look like any other North American city
1. Morocco has desert, mountains, steppe and Mediterranean vegetation
2.. Spain has a desert
3. Iran and Turkiye have a rainforest but it's not tropical
4. Germany, Croatia, Poland and Russia have a desert
5. The only mediterranean country where it has never snowed is Malta
6. It snows regularly in Brazil and Australia in winter
7. Indonesia and Malaysia have Snow on there Mountains Puncak Jaya and Gunung Kinabalu
8. There is Snow relatively often in the Sahara desert and in Saudi Arabia
9. The only asian countries where it has never snowed are: Maldives, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, Brunei, Qatar, Bahrain, Philippines and Kuwait
spain has a desert in the north but it's not a desert climate, for example it's less sunny than south east france
@Yoshi-wt4lg It has too a desert in the south, the Tabernas desert, it looks like Mojave desert it has mediterranean climate, but near to it, there is Cabo de Gata with a desert climate
There are no deserts in Germany or Poland. Lots of sand doesn’t classify a place as a desert. The climate, specifically precipitation rates, is what makes a desert a desert.
It doesn't snow in Thailand either
@@sanexpreso2944 It has snowed once in Thailand in the 50s
You didn't mention that it does snow in Brazil! When people think of Brazil they think that it's a tropical country with a lot of beaches with white sand and crystal clear water. That is true but people don't know that the country is not 100% tropical.
In the South of Brazil, especially in the States of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande Do Sul it does snow in some cities like Urubici and São Joaquim, for example. And you might think that snow is rare in those places. Well, actually no. It does snow every single year in those places with temperatures like -7°C.
But those are very small places in the country. We can't deny that those places break some stereotypes though.
It's funny because in fact the southern region of Brazil that has a subtropical-oceanic climate is larger than any European country except Russia, so Brazil has more territory with temperate climates than any country in Europe
@@sanexpreso2944 It is not just Russia, Ukraine is also larger than South Brazil... or at least used to be. You're technically correct if we consider only the land that Ukraine still controls.
The higher mountains in Hawaii can get quite a lot of snow, too, so seeing a picture with foot-deep snow or whiteout conditions looks pretty out of place for Hawaii.
Hawaii even has a goddess of snow, Poliʻahu.
Never been there, but I heard in southwestern Russia, on the Black Sea coast there are palm trees and snowless winters are the norm, literally the opposite of what I imagine when I hear Russia
Yes, the coast around Sochi. And occupied Crimea, ofc 😡
@@wyqtorCrimea has been Russia for hundred of years get over it, Kruschev just gave it to Ukranian Socialist Republic. The people of Crimea are Russian.
Yeah, the south of Russia is very warm, you're thinking of Sochi and Anapa region
"When Colombia pops into your head, what comes to mind?"
Me, a man of culture: "Encanto"
The guy really tried to impress people with mountains in a country bordering Tibet 💀
You should mention Chrea, Algeria, a snowy alpine region in a country typically known for the vast Sahara region to the south and the dry Mediterranean to the north!
Colombia also has the tallest coastal mountain in the world, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, where one can experience 5km+ above sea level frigid weather an hour away from very warm and humid tropical beaches. La Guajira desert (an actual desert not like the Tatacoa arid forest) is also located nearby, and all of this is found on the eastern half of the Caribbean region of Colombia, the other 5 regions of the country are pretty diverse too.
The floating islands in Avatar were inspired by the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China. It's basically giant pillar mountains that looks like something out of a fantasy world
When I see a picture of Lake Malawi, I don't think that it is in Malawi because it looks like the picture was taken next to the coast when in fact, Malawi is landlocked.
if you make a part 2, i think you should mention desierto de rangipo, a desert in the middle of new zealand’s north island
do other video like this one pls i loved itr, it s changing our point of view on numerous country and region of the world.
Tasmania’s landscape is not like stereotypical Australia and more like Wales, Ireland or Scotland.
It’s not like those at all. All of these countries/provinces have been incredibly deforested, all of these are mostly composed by green wastelands. Tasmania, on the other hand, is (still) teeming with forests, hills, bodies of water and life all around.
@@grandmasteryoda6717 what I mean is by mountain height and similar climate.
I think people already accept that Australia encompasses every land type imaginable.
Denmarks migrating sand dunes at Råbjerg Knude and its desert at Råbjerg Mile. Also Denmarks many many white sandy beaches - specifically Grenen at Skagen. Which has white sand and turquoise water.
Wouldn't call it a desert too much rain for that
Another example would be Algeria, which most People assume to be only a Desert. But in the North its actually Green and Mountainous with Snowy Landscapes in Kabylia.
This is great! Thanks for all the quirks and details!
I don't understand why people find sand dunes in Brazil that unexpected. We have tons of beaches with sand dunes and lakes/lagoons on them, although the Lençóis Maranhenses is amazing and on another scale for sure.
0:54 i guessed myanmar when you gave hint it is in South-east asia
same
I was guessing Puncak Jaya on the island of New Guinea.
I thought Puncak Jaya too!
same lol
Same
When you mentioned Colombia, you would have mentioned that the majority of its population lives in a subtropical-oceanic mountain climate despite the fact that half of the country is covered by the Amazon
In the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith they show Bogota, the capital of Colombia, as if it were a tropical town in the middle of the jungle, when the city is cold and is more than 2,500 meters above sea level, that is like putting that Cairo is a city surrounded by snow that is next to an icy sea
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Very good! Yes part 2!
When you said snow capped mountains in SouthEast Asia, I thought of Jaya Wijaya, a 5000-is meter tall mountain in West Papua. Indonesia is normally a hot humid tropical islands, but Indonesia also home to some of the tallest mountain in the Southeast Asia. Surprised there's actually another snowcapped mountains in both Myanmar and Vietnam. Also look for Dieng Plateau ice and Nepal Van Java, they don't look like they belong to Indonesian landscape.
This is a really interesting idea for a video, nicely done as well!
South Spain is also like this, cause we can see semi desert landscape, snow, pine forests and also green, almost subtropical forests (I do not refer to the Canarian Islands, but to a small part near Gibraltar)
I have spotted the Llanos del Juncal, which is probably a remnant of the laurisilva forests still extant on islands like Madeira or the Canaries. I haven't been there, but I have been to the southern coast of Spain in the spring, from Málaga all the way to Gibraltar, and I was pleasantly surprised as to how green the landscape was! Looking forward to returning to Andalucía, which is my favorite mainland Spanish province!
@@wyqtor year, this winter I went to Tarifa, it was a beautiful experience :)
spain is country for retired
@@Yoshi-wt4lg If you believe that there are characteristics of a country that determine that, fine. But it does not matter actually.
super cool video would absolutely love a part 2
Some other examples I’ve thought of:
Poland (stereotypical flat and cold country): Tatra national park with alpine mountains or Błędów Desert that looks like the Middle East.
Sweden (cold): The sandy beaches with blue water in Stenhuvud National park or the crystal clear waters, white limestone soil, arid vegetation and Mediterranean feel of Gotland island.
Denmark (also cold): Sandy beaches and limestone cliffs in Møns klint or Sand dunes in Raabjerg mile.
The Sahara desert and much of the MENA region (hot): The numerous times it falls huge amounts of snow in parts of the desert or surrounding areas.
the polish desert is man made
This is such a great video idea, i need a part 2
LOVE LOVE LOVE this topic!!! More of this
GREAT VIDEO!! Really interesting
There are sooo many more examples of this, you could easily do a whole series. I live near Osoyoos BC, the only semi-arid shrubland in Canada, often referred to as Canada's only desert.
Colombia has also La Guajira desert which is much bigger
In Hungary, there is a tiny desert. Called fülöpházi homokbuckák
i’m not even joking i thought with the mountain… “Burma?”
Same here!
Where's our $1 million?
This should be a series 👍🏽😊
great vid!
I got so many new things from this video. Thanks for creating such a wonderful video.
This was a rlly good video. I usually don’t ask for part twos (bc what are the chances of you reading this) but can you?
for 7:29 Gansu in China also has rainbow mtns
I've been once and they're spectacular but not as bright as the images make them out to be.
For Part 2 you must include Egypt's snowy mountains of Saint Katherine and the Afrotropical forests of Elba in Halayeb, as well as the Mediterranean Temperature forests in Marmarica.
In fact, in Northern Vietnam, 0 degrees Celsius is often considered the lowest level that can occur in the Northwest mountainous urban and Northeast midland urban, and 7 degrees Celsius is the lowest level in urban areas at sea level.
Northern Vietnam is the only region in Southeast Asia with four distinct seasons. Although the terrain is not high, because there are few hills and mountains to protect it, cold winds from Siberia can blow straight down to Northern Vietnam at the end of the year.
one of your better and more educational / THANK YOU
Nice vid. I for one, would like to see a part 2.
An active volcano, white sandy beaches with crystal blue waters, impenetrable amazonian rainforests, mountains over 4000 meters, barren icy desert, an island made of mountains plunging into the sea, large wheat fields and vineyards can all be found in this one European country : France, including its overseas territories in South America, Caribbean, South Pacific, The Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and even claimed territories in the Antarctic.
Can you make this a series? It's very interesting.
In my country Spain I can think of: desierto de tabernas (only desert in europe), Picos de europa (lush green mountains that look like a slightly cheaper switzerland), Canary island (here you can find anything from sand dunes to sub tropical forests to incredible volcanic beaches)
3:01 that’s about the same as summer where I live in Australia, definitely liveable temperatures
for real, didn't even break 40 degrees, pathetic.
@@sino_diogenes it's average, record is 50°c
I thought it was pretty well known that Japan had Okinawa. It's an island that saw some of the most brutal fighting in WW2. It's a large part of the reason why the Americans reconsidered an invasion of the mainland since a lot of soldiers and civilians in Okinawa had preferred to take their lives rather than surrender. Nowadays, it's very common for Japanese people to go there on holiday and such. Having said that, it is indeed pretty shocking how different the North is from the South in terms of climate. Japan is the snowiest country in the world yet Okinawa stays relatively hot even in Winter
Irans Gilan rainforest. Canada has a little desert in BC
I have 2 to add:
Think of Arizona as nothing but desert with cacti and the Grand Canyon? Go to the Apache National Forest which is about a 2 or 3 hour drive east of Phoenix close to the New Mexico border. There's pine, fir, and spruce trees with even a few alpine meadows mixed in your almost think your in Switzerland, minus the tall mountain peaks.
Think of Texas as nothing but ranches and open grassland outside the major cities? Head to almost anywhere on the very eastern edge of the sate and your see oak, sycamore, and even maple tree forests that look more like out of western Europe like the UK or France.
Part 2 please!
lovely video. i guessed the Myanmar pic immediately haha
Some of these places were predictable, but the island of Hormuz made a huge impression on me, I would love to visit this place someday.
Tip for Central Europe: Pustynia Błędowska. Our little Polish desert.
Hokkaido in Japan has not just some snow in the winter but an enormous snow covering, often 2-3 metres high!
This is going to be my new travel list
Could you make a video where you do this for every country?
I'd love to see the one for Vatican City.
It was a pretty good video.
If you were gonna do a part 2, Papua New Guinea has a peak similar to the one you showed for Myanmar (it was actually my guess, but I got it wrong). That country is usually known for low lying jungles and forested coasts.
Portugal is much more than the touristic and stereotypical image that foreigners generally have of it.
For starters, it has much more of a "northern" element to it than people realize.
With mountains and wilderness, snow and wintry scenarios, celtic heritage and culture, etc; such diversity can't possibly fit inside a stereotypical perception, I guess.
They never get to know the half of it, in the manner that the Portuguese do.
Tras-os-Montes?
@@yadgar1969 I don't necessarily mean the "northern" as in northern regions, although they are the ones that are more inclined towards that.
Wow, Margarita Peak is incredible! I went looked at it on Google Earth and found more photos- WHAT A PLACE! And the pictures from the hike up there are breathtaking! Thanks for putting that one in this video!
1:15 Are we just gonna ignore the fact that there's a town called 'Dong'?
Believe it or not, 'dong' in Vietnamese means 'money'!
😅, the association is quickly made @watercade...
0:28 Isles of Scilly are goated fr
Where my million pounds?!?!
We need part 2 :D.
There's a sand desert in Maine, not something you'd expect in North-East USA.
it’s not a desert. just sand.
The mountains at 0:52 are in Nepal. Although Hkakbo Razi is indeed in Myanmar, the picture shown is of Mount Everest and surrounding peaks.
I hope you have part 2, and feature Vietnam with some more astonishing landscapes such as DESERT (in Bình Thuận and Ninh Thuận province - most arid area in VN); VOLCANOES despite situated far from the Ring of Fire; ATOLLS....
If you drop a street view guy in the middle of the Big Island in Hawaii and show someone the images without the captions, they’ll probably guess Arizona or New Mexico.
The Curonian Spit - shared by Russia and Lithuania - is like a mini-desert.
That bit in Oman is so cool!
There's a region centered on the city of Salalah that has a really weird monsoon. During July and August, only about 50mm/2 inches of precipitation falls, but it falls almost entirely in the form of near-constant fog and drizzle. It makes it super green and lush!
In southern Greece we have the local date palm species phoenix theophrastii. So especially in Crete you can see natural palm forests like Vai, Prevelis and Ayios Nikitas that are making the natural landscape more like a North African date palm oasis than a classic common mediterranean. That palm grows also in Palea Epidavros close to the area of the archaiological site of the famous ancient theatre of Epidaurus. It's also as a local variety there. Even Crete has at least 4 varieties of phoenix theophrastii. Also there are some remnants on the island of Amorgos and maybe some palms here and there on Kos island. The rest small populations are in southwestern Turkiye.
Also in Greece we have the just opposite landscape, like Alpine lakes and cold climate forests like fagus forests and on the northernmost places like the borders with Bulgaria, on the Rhodope mountains, you can meet even birch trees (the southernmost tip of that species) and picea abies, which is also its southernmost tip.
Another example of an extreme landscape for Greece, is the inland sand dunes of Limnos island. It looks like as a replica of a classic sandy desert, but in the middle of a hilly classic aegean semiarid landscape and not as usually near a coast as seaside sand dunes.
It's a very unique experience for a visitor.
When you said that those Mountains are in southeast asia, i immediately guessed burma.
Without the southeast asia statement, my guess would have been the zagros mountains.
00:50 I guessed Burma when you said it was in south east Asia... I wasn't even surprised when I was right, I did associate Myanmar with mountains in that region (as Thailand, Vietnam and Laos are warmer in weather vibes generally). It is also very close to Bhutan which is like the most effing mountainous place I've ever heard of so that was a part of the vibe as well
Same here. Oh well, we can split the million.... 🙂
The "deserts" in the Netherlands can also be included here
We have a moving sand dune in Denmark. It was fun seeing it in snow when we visited
Here's a few more example- -Halgurd mountain in iraq, there's snow during winter.
-Blida province in algeria,also snow during winter
-xilingol grassland,mongolia; has grass that might be taller than humans and flows beautifully in wind
Greece too isn't just nice beaches and hot weather all year. On the mainland there are big mountain ranges with dense forests and alpine landscapes on the peaks with a diverse wildlife, there are even bears on the north of the country.
You could add for next video is the snowy villagescapes in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Frozen Campbell Island in NZ, frozen Prince Edward Island of South Africa, and the California wine valley looking region of Tarija, Bolivia.
the desert around tacna Peru is awesome, ive been there
Yes, Peru is a very diverse country, with both deserts and dense humid jungles, divided by the majestic Andes!
Eastern Colorado is a good example too. Colorado is widely associated with high mountains and forests, yet the eastern half of the state is very arid and flat.
I recently travelled to the northern part of Borneo (Sabah), where unexpected plants were the pine trees growing in the mountainous area around Mount Kinabalu and Kundasang, the landscape in general there looks a lot like the alps in some places.
Most of Borneo is covered by tropical jungle since Borneo is directly at the equator, this isn't the type of landscape where you would expect pine trees, and the landscape around Mount Kinabalu in general looks a lot like the alps. These tropical pine trees are Sumatra pines and I actually bought a small one at a plant market to take home as an indoor plant.
Also Mount Kinabalu (over 4000 m height) is the only place in Malaysia and Borneo where it can actually (rarely) snow, something you also wouldn't expect in a tropical area close to the equator.
very underrated
Thanks to this video, some of these places will now have resorts and private areas for those who can buy them… I have seen it happen too many times before.
I work as a forest ranger in Iceland. Many people from abroad struggle to grasp the idea of that, but we have many forests.🇮🇸😊
Loved all of these! The Okinawa example was the only one that didn’t fit. It’s like saying look how beautiful and tropical the USA is. But showing Puerto Rico lol
Why? Okinawa is an integral part of Japan, not a territory. The whole point is identifying areas within countries that are geographically different from most of that country, so naturally that's likely to be places that are geographically remote / distant. Same as for the Scilly Isles and England.
I mean, it make sense from the title, it stated that it's about the country's geography stereotypes instead of region's geography stereotypes. But it does feel like it fits less, mainly because Okinawa is pretty famous.
I would've used the Tottori dunes as an example instead.
There are arctic regions and tropical rainforests in France
The Isles of Silly? What a crazy place!
The Macritchie Reservoir rainforest in central Singapore looks more like the Amazon jungle. Totally shocked me when i first saw it.
Ngl, I didn't knew about Uganda having snow and THAT tall mountain, that was a shocker for me 😮
1:31 okay but Myanmar obviously goes very far north, and shares a long border with the mountainous Yunnan province
I would add Pag Island in Croatia, it's a beautiful desert island part of a wider archipelago on the Adriatic coast. There's a national park in the nearby mountains about a kilometer above sea level called Sjeverni Velebit with evergreen forests not unlike those in the Alps or the Nordic countries, it's close enough that you can look down and see the desert archipelago from the forest. Real life Minecraft biomes.
There are several badland deserts where I live in Alberta Canada. Also a couple arid sandy desert like places in BC. Most people think Canada is all cold and green or the Canadian shield forests and the mountains but there are deserts here too.
these places are still very cold
@@Yoshi-wt4lg what's your point
@@Lattrodon those places are just drier not hotter is the point I believe. So when people think canada is forest and cold they are partially correct because everywhere in canada is cold relative to most other countries
@@nunyabailey Wow you are wrong. It gets as hot as 46c (115f) here in the summer months. I know you think you know what you are talking about but I can tell you have never lived here.
If you haven't done it already, you could probably also do this for most US states. For example, a lot of people think Arizona is nothing but desert, when in reality, northern Arizona can get a lot of snow.
Cool
The thumbnail told the truth
Råbjerg mile in Denmark looks like a desert fell from the sky and just landed smack in the middle of the country. Its kinda like a minecraft desert biome lol.